- It is time to rebuild America. A $1 trillion investment to modernize our country’s physical infrastructure would not just rebuild our country but create and maintain 13 million good-paying jobs that our economy desperately needs. http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/230866-sen-sanders-files-1t-infrastructure-bill 1294 comments politics
- Paying Maintainers is Good https://jacobian.org/2024/feb/16/paying-maintainers-is-good/ 17 comments programming
- Letter to Canadian taxpayers: "If Trans Mountain can’t pay its bills, recover its costs, service its debt or maintain a pipeline under repeated assault from climate change, you are liable for these losses." #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2023/10/13/Dear-TMX-Oilsands-Pipeline-Owner-More-Bad-News/ 5 comments climate
- Google Pays ‘Enormous’ Sums to Maintain Search-Engine Dominance, DOJ Says https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-08/google-pays-enormous-sums-to-maintain-its-dominance-doj-says 24 comments technology
- [Freedman] That’s the play here. Get the full 6/6 from RSNs but only pay 5/6 of the cost of the season. It’s a 16.67% raise in profitability by maintaining the lockout through April. Sure, they’re locking out the players, but they’re also scamming their TV partners at the same time. /end https://twitter.com/eugenefreedman/status/1499397927134842880?s=21 78 comments baseball
- Support open source that you use by paying the maintainers to talk to your team by Simon Wilson https://simonwillison.net/2022/Feb/23/support-open-source/ 3 comments opensource
- Support open source that you use by paying the maintainers to talk to your team https://simonwillison.net/2022/Feb/23/support-open-source/ 11 comments programming
- Stop paying tech debts, start maintaining code https://blog.testdouble.com/posts/2022-01-20-stop-paying-debts-start-maintaining-code/ 3 comments webdev
- Stop paying tech debts, start maintaining code https://blog.testdouble.com/posts/2022-01-20-stop-paying-debts-start-maintaining-code/ 26 comments programming
- Forfeiture on the table for COVID-19 violations under certain conditions, and NFL maintains no pay if no game https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/forfeiture-on-the-table-for-covid-19-violations-under-certain-conditions-and-nfl-maintains-no-pay-if-no-game/ 56 comments nfl
- Deutsche Bank maintained accounts for Jeffrey Epstein despite 'red flags': Regulators The bank has agreed to pay $150 million in penalties. https://abcnews.go.com/business/deutsche-bank-agrees-pay-150-million-relationship-jeffrey/story?id=71647740 3 comments politics
- Roger Stone Needs Your Help to Maintain His Standard of Living - His wife is "embarrassed to write" a letter asking for cash to pay living expenses. But she does anyhow. https://thebulwark.com/roger-stone-needs-your-help-to-maintain-his-standard-of-living/ 39 comments politics
- Author and maintainer of the worlds main list of bogus and for pay publishers is MIA and the list has been taken down http://ottawacitizen.com/storyline/worlds-main-list-of-science-predators-vanishes-with-no-warning 4 comments science
- Trump maintains Mexico is ‘100 percent’ paying for border wall http://nypost.com/2017/01/25/trump-maintains-mexico-is-100-percent-paying-for-border-wall/ 21 comments politics
- Trump Says South Korea Pays 'Peanuts' For U.S. Troop Presence, Suggests That South Korea Should Pay The United States "Very Substantially" For Maintaining 28,000 Troops There To Help Defend It From The North http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-southkorea-iduskbn0ul02d20160107 42 comments politics
- What the Government Spends on Confederate Graves -- Taxpayers now pay more to maintain rebel graves and monuments than those honoring Union soldiers. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/07/government-spending-confederate-graves/277931/ 29 comments politics
- It Pays to Be Putin’s Friend: The rise of Bank Rossiya, controlled by close friends of President Vladimir V. Putin, illustrates how he has enriched loyalists whose influence over key sectors of the economy has helped him maintain his iron grip on power. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/world/europe/it-pays-to-be-putins-friend-.html 16 comments worldnews
- Private prisons demand states maintain maximum capacity or pay fees http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/20/low-crime-rates-bad-for-business-so-private-prisons-require-maximum-capacity/ 35 comments politics
- "People are now paying 43 percent more to build and maintain local power grids than they did back in 2002. At the same time, the grid is also becoming less reliable, with blackouts now taking 20 percent longer to fix." http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/08/surprise-the-u-s-power-grid-is-getting-pricier-less-reliable/ 43 comments politics
- Romney again defends 'corporations are people' remark: Today at a town hall here, he defended the remark once again. "When you say, 'Tax corporations,' the steel and the vinyl and the concrete, those things don't pay taxes, only people do," Romney maintained. http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/08/24/7463051-romney-again-defends-corporations-are-people-remark 4 comments politics
- Afghanistan's president has warned that it will take 15 years before it is able to pay for the costs of maintaining its own security forces http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8400806.stm 9 comments worldnews
- There is no going back: The operation to sell Coutinho and buy Griezmann has been activated. Barcelona will try to negotiate with Atlético Madrid to avoid paying the striker's release clause and maintain a healthy relationship with them. Chelsea hope to buy Coutinho to replace Hazard. [SPORT] https://www.sport.es/es/noticias/barca/operacion-sale-coutinho-entra-griezmann-7453347 302 comments soccer
- Secret Service maintains mission in face of shutdown, but lack of pay hurting morale https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/17/politics/secret-service-shutdown/index.html 48 comments politics
- Baltimore officials will pay consultant $176,800 to help police department maintain Lotus Notes system https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/95rv51/baltimore_officials_will_pay_consultant_176800_to/ 200 comments sysadmin
- Australian Medical Association wants tax on sugary drinks and ban on junk food ads: Doctors lobby group maintains pressure after Malcolm Turnbull’s rejection of idea because consumers pay ‘enough taxes’. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jan/07/australian-medical-association-wants-tax-on-sugary-drinks-and-ban-on-junk-food-ads 266 comments worldnews
- Everyone benefits from Network Time Protocol (NTP), but the project struggles to pay its sole maintainer or fund its various initiatives http://www.infoworld.com/article/3144546/security/time-is-running-out-for-ntp.html 44 comments sysadmin
- Today, open source looks less like a two-way street, and more like free products that nobody pays for, but that still require serious hours to maintain. https://medium.com/@nayafia/we-re-in-a-brave-new-post-open-source-world-56ef46d152a3#.y0ki9cv1n 4 comments opensource
- John McCain on Iraq: U.S. pays heavy ‘price’ - McCain said repeatedly that the U.S. “had the conflict won” after the 2007 troop surge, with Iraq maintaining a stable government and Al Qaeda extremists largely defeated. http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/john-mccain-iraq-obama-us-heavy-price-107825.html?hp=r6 6 comments politics
- Disruptions: Paying to Travel in the Internet’s Fast Lanes: Obama said the F.C.C. was considering an appeal with the goal of maintaining “a free and open Internet.” http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/02/disruptions-paying-to-travel-in-the-internets-fast-lanes/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=1& 22 comments technology
- What the government pays to snoop on you: 'AT&T, for example, imposes a $325 "activation fee" for each wiretap and $10 a day to maintain it... Verizon customer costs the government $775 for the first month and $500 each month after that.' http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/07/10/what-government-pays-to-snoop-on-you/2504819/ 50 comments politics
- [El Mundo] Rubiales hatched a 'hidden plan' to pay Piqué 24 million for the Super Cup. The IGAE delivers a report to Anticorruption, to which EL MUNDO has exclusively accessed, in which it maintains that the RFEF and Saudi Arabia https://www.elmundo.es/deportes/futbol/2022/11/13/636f8525fdddff99048b458b.html?cid=BESOCYEM01 11 comments soccer
- Hard work and poor pay stresses out open-source maintainers https://www.zdnet.com/article/hard-work-and-poor-pay-stresses-out-open-source-maintainers/ 2 comments software
- Charities working in immigration detention centres were asked to pay multimillion-dollar bonds that could be forfeited if they spoke out against government policy, as the Coalition sought to maintain secrecy over border protection. http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/buying-silence-immigration-asked-charities-for-multimilliondollar-bond-20151030-gkmspv.html 20 comments worldnews
- The Georgia Legislature Just Pulled the Plug on Electric Cars - But it gets worse for electric vehicle (EV) boosters. Legislators are adding a $200-a-year annual fee for owners to offset the loss of gasoline taxes that drivers would otherwise pay to maintain roads. https://news.vice.com/article/the-georgia-legislature-just-pulled-the-plug-on-electric-cars 53 comments politics
- 5 Ways to Make Banks Pay for Their Secret $7 Trillion Free Ride: The CEOs of major banks maintained they were in good financial shape. Meanwhile, they secretly borrowed massive amounts from the government to stay afloat. http://www.alternet.org/economy/153291/eliot_spitzer%3A_5_ways_to_make_banks_pay_for_their_secret_%247_trillion_free_ride/?page=entire 4 comments politics
- Wesley Snipes who is scheduled to go on trial Monday, has become an unlikely public face for the antitax movement, whose members maintain that Americans are not obligated to pay income taxes http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/14/business/14tax.html?_r=3&ref=business&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin 7 comments reddit.com
- [Ledyard] I believe Josh Allen will sustain his turnaround after a slow start in the NFL and maintain a top 10 level of QB play moving forward. But I probably would have waited for 2 non-bad seasons before paying him like this! https://twitter.com/ledyardnfldraft/status/1423692576297820171?s=21 212 comments nfl
- Senator Rand Pauls Government Shutdown Prevention Act of 2011: "we keep obligations made to our military personnel, seniors, children, and federal workers maintain an adequate level of pay, but Members of Congress and the President do not get paid unless they actually work out a resolution." http://www.paul.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=332380& 16 comments politics
- Germany to match US contribution to NATO budget - From 2021, Germany will increase its contribution to the NATO budget to be in line with what the US pays. NATO officials hope the move will diffuse tensions surrounding the cost of maintaining the military alliance. https://www.dw.com/en/germany-to-match-us-contribution-to-nato-budget/a-51446211 30 comments europe
- Each year GE files 7,000 tax returns totaling 24,000 pages. Indecipherable. If you are a large company you should be required to pay the government for the cost to maintain the bureaucracy to monitor your taxation, including automatic audits. Non-avoidable, non-refundable. http://money.cnn.com/2010/04/16/news/companies/ge_7000_tax_returns/ 21 comments politics